When he has put on his boots, and dashing out, skims over the mud as if he were on wings!
I bid you beware of compromise and of altering yourselves,
But keep your heart immovable like a millstone, like the holy bonds of your inheritance!
Take a resolution and steadfastly follow it! Tread everything under your feet, your wife and your house and yourself, as you would tread on a garment. Beware of any change! For aside from yourself what is there, can you tell me? And you yourself are something.—Lay your foundations there.
Of yourselves alone are you surely masters. Beware of being dispossessed.
And I,
I have believed myself a power more than human, an elemental force! I have appeared in the midst of your monotonous week.
I can speak no longer. God! I die anew. Shall I reappear again?
Farewell!
I have come to the furthest verge of life, and now once more